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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2009 14:27:26 GMT
We have quite a few lakes and beaches in the area. Here is a photo of one down the road, that I took in the early evening yesterday. The locals like to go out on their boats on this (and other nearby lakes). This one is great for fishing too, my kids like to dive into the lake at the end of the boardwalk. It would be nice to see your lake/sea/ocean/beach pictures too.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2009 19:14:05 GMT
The area of the English Channel is very misty and hazy, so it is quite rare to see the other side of the channel. However, on one perfect day, I took this picture of England from Cap Gris Nez, the closest point in France to the English coast.
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Post by imec on Aug 12, 2009 21:57:47 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2009 22:06:30 GMT
Kerouac, such a nice pic. That must have been a really clear day.
imec, amazing how you captured it all so well, including the birds! Is the area very sandy? And what was or is that structure in the second picture? And idea? Looks very isolated too. Were you on holiday there or just passing through?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2009 23:17:17 GMT
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Post by imec on Oct 3, 2009 1:16:29 GMT
I feel like I can smell the sea air and hear the waves. Beautiful! And not a soul around - fantastic place!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2009 1:19:38 GMT
(shhhhh,that's why I go after Labor Day! All the 212's are gone).
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 3, 2009 1:26:04 GMT
Oh, I had forgotten about this thread. So many bodies of water in such different moods, and such wonderful pictures.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2009 14:56:03 GMT
Nice pics. I need to add to this thread.
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Post by tillystar on Nov 19, 2009 15:54:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2009 20:32:20 GMT
Wow , now I remember why I am planning a day at the seaside next month.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2009 20:46:32 GMT
I like all that sand. Nice pics.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 20, 2009 7:25:05 GMT
The beach near our house on Sanibel Island, Florida. The same beach after storms threw up lots of shells. Sanibel and Captiva Islands are called the Seashell Islands for a reason.
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Post by Kimby on Nov 20, 2009 7:27:04 GMT
The beaches of North Queensland, Australia, blew us away. They were so nice, and there were so many of them, and they were so not-built-up.
Will have to post some pics here, when I get done sorting the photos from the trip.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2009 11:32:01 GMT
Wow, really nice beaches. I've heard that the one's in Australia are outstanding. I can't believe how many shells are washed up on the shore there.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2009 18:29:08 GMT
Whew!!! Tilly, did you always know you were a good photographer, or is this something recently discovered? Those pictures are so wonderful in mood, composition, clarity and beauty. I want to be in that place right now.
And Kimby -- what a wonderful tropical contrast to the northern mood of Tilly's pictures! I absolutely love that second one, with the lowering Gulf sky, tossing palms, and ominous line of green on the horizon. And there is great tension created by the eye wanting both to look at all that and at the treasury of shells.
I've been to Sanibel, but missed out on a super shelling day.
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Post by imec on Nov 21, 2009 19:11:20 GMT
Not sure how I managed to miss this.
tilly, beautiful pics of a part of Wales I have never visited. Spent lots of time in North Wales/Anglesey as a kid.
kimby, I would so love to take my kids collecting shells on that beach!
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Post by tillystar on Nov 23, 2009 9:25:07 GMT
Oh thanks Bixa for saying I am a good photographer, but its really just I am an enthusiastic one and take so many pictures that the law of averages says there will be a few good ones Kimby, your beaches made me want to just feel the sun on my cold bones this morning! I felt my shoulders relaxing looking at them!
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Post by Kimby on Nov 24, 2009 18:19:48 GMT
I'm getting anxious to hang out on Sanibel's beaches - heading there soon.
BTW last time we were there in May, we took a moonlit walk under a full moon and watched a loggerhead turtle digging her nest and laying eggs, then dragging her huge old carapace - totally not adapted for terrestrial locomotion - back to the sea, where she gracefully re-entered her element.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 24, 2009 19:23:28 GMT
Oh -- what a beautiful memory, Kimby. Your description is a perfect mini-movie of the event, too.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Nov 25, 2009 8:26:33 GMT
Ahh, finally, I can post some pictures of back home! That is me... I am very scared of ledges... This last one is Lunenburg, the town that I am from. I don't know who that guy is... you can only get that view from the golf course so I presume he is a golfer.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 25, 2009 17:13:28 GMT
Whoo ~~ someone has been hiding her light under a bushel! (did you enjoy the hackneyed idiom? ;D)
That marsh grass flattening in the wind in the first one is great -- such a feeling of movement. What a beautiful area!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2010 22:06:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 17:00:35 GMT
It was still so green excistenta, in November? I need to add to this thread, later. Bikini shot optional.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 21:58:24 GMT
The tiny streamlet behind our house, a couple weeks ago.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 21:59:06 GMT
St. John River:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 22:00:55 GMT
Oh Kimby, that's so pretty.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 22:09:38 GMT
thanks, deyana. It was fun to watch the ice melt and reform every day during our week-long trudge and burn session, which caused us to cross this creek multiple times a day. The icicles formed around pine needles as water from melting snow/ice dripped off their tips....
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Post by imec on Apr 10, 2010 22:11:59 GMT
I've been busy lately and haven't been around much - deyana I missed your streams - very nice - I wish the pics were bigger (and I wish the letters weren't in the bottom right corner - they're taking away from some very good images).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2010 22:15:14 GMT
imec, I've changed both those things now. My future photos (and some that I took recently) are re-sized on photo bucket to come out as large now. And I've got rid of the date on the bottom right corner too. I agree they do look better bigger now.
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